(Amendment  6  to 
B.A.I.OrderMG.) 


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.    JEPOSITORY 

United  States  Department  of  Agriculture, 

BUREAU  OF  ANIMAL  INDUSTRY. 


AMENDMENT   6  TO  RULE   8,  REVISION  1.-T0  PREVENT   THE   SPREAD 
OF  SCABIES  IN  SHEEP. 


Amendment  effective  on  and  after  August  20,  1909. 


United  States  Department  of  Agriculture, 

Office  of  the  Secretary. 
It  is  ordered  that  the  quarantine  for  scabies  in  sheep  placed  upon  the 
State  of  Kentucky  by  Amendment  4  to  Rule  3,  Revision  1,  dated 
August  5,  1909,  and  effective  on  and  after  August  16,  1909,  be,  and  the 
same  is  hereby,  modified  to  permit  the  interstate  shipment  of  sheep  of 
States  not  quarantined  for  scabies  in  sheep  which  are  exhibited  at  the 
Kentucky  State  Fair  to  be  held  at  Louisville  September  13  to  18,  1909, 
inclusive,  subject  to  the  following  restrictions : 

(a)  Such  sheep  shall  be  shipped  by  rail  to  Louisville  and  shall  not 
be  unloaded  in  the  area  quarantined  for  sheep  scabies  elsewhere  than  at 
Louisville. 

(b)  Separate  cleaned  and  disinfected  chutes  and  other  facilities  shall 
be  provided  for  the  exclusive  unloading  and  loading  of  such  sheep  at 
Louisville. 

(c)  Such  sheep  shall  be  hauled  in  cleaned  and  disinfected  wagons 
direct  from  the  cars  in  which  they  arrive  at  Louisville  to  the  fair 
grounds,  and  from  the  fair  grounds  direct  to  the  cars  in  which  they  are 
to  be  reshipped. 

(d)  That  portion  of  the  fair  grounds  or  other  premises  to  be  occupied 
exclusively  by  such  sheep  shall  be  cleaned  and  disinfected  under  the 
supervision  of  an  employee  of  the  Bureau  of  Animal  Industry  before 
said  sheep  are  placed  therein. 

(e)  Such  sheep  shall  not  be  moved  interstate  from  Louisville  except 
in  cleaned  and  disinfected  cars,  nor  unless  accompanied  by  a  certificate 
issued  by  an  inspector  of  the  Bureau  of  Animal  Industry  showing  that 
the  sheep  have  had  no  opportunity  to  become  infected  with  scabies. 

It  is  also  ordered  that  said  Amendment  4  to  Rule  3,  Revision  1,  be,  and 
the  same  is  hereby,  modified  to  permit  the  reforwarding  in  interstate 
commerce  of  shipments  from  other  States  of  sheep  that  are  free  from 


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scabies  and  from  exposure  thereto  and  that  in  transit  through  Ken- 
tucky are  unloaded  at  points  in  that  State :  Provided  such  unloading 
shall  be  into  pens  or  yards  which  have  been  specially  cleaned  and  dis- 
infected for  the  purpose  under  the  supervision  of  an  employee  of  the 
Bureau  of  Animal  Industry,  and  which  have  been  specially  designated 
and  approved  for  that  purpose  by  the  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  Animal 
Industry. 

Done    at   Washington    this    twentieth    day   of 
August,  1909. 

Witness  my  hand  and  the  seal  of  the  Depart- 
11  ment  of  Agriculture. 

W.  M.  Hays, 
Acting  Secretary  of  Agriculture. 


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